Pelletier Center

(Westboro, MA)

Pelletier Center
WESTBORO, MA
Evaluation from teenage girls residency - January 2010

Yes I did enjoy the Sarasa Residency very much. They were very accepting, warming, and understanding. They captured everyone’s attention and kept it well. They knew how to entertain teenagers well.

I’ve never sang in front of people before, but they made me want to.

I like our performances because it brought us closer together and brought out our talents. It helped us feel for each other more and understand what each one of us was going through. It helped us with our self-esteem and showed us that if you give it your all w/o caring what others think, in the end, others will think even better of you. It gave kids confidence and helped them feel as if they were the center of attention even if it was for only 5 min. at a time; it gave kids hope. I also liked the group singing, and drumming because it taught us to play in unisance [sic] and together. The group discussions taught us more about practice makes perfect and music in general. It also brought out our thinking abilities, and how we think, whether we think alike or not.

I learned that it takes much more than a great voice to sing. Music, I feel, is a way to express yourself. It is a way to show emotion or tell a story. People come out in music, whether the tune/mood is anger, romance, beauty, or sadness, it all sounds beautiful and it is all a part of life. Each emotion makes each song different, just like our emotions make us different.

Sometimes I write poems. I think this helps me with my anger. It’s a great thing to be able to write down your feelings.

I feel that listening to music here calms and soothes me. Also, at funerals of my friends I have gone to, the music is very important. It lets you think about a lot. Also, a song that you listened to with a best friend, no matter how far apart you and that person may be, if you hear that song you come to feel like you’re sitting right next to them. You also start to wonder if your best friend thinks that same as they listen to the song and whether or not they’re listening to it at the same time.

My best friend Sage is an incredible singer. Her voice brings tears to my eyes. However, she comes from a poor household and she just recently got hit by a drunk driver which permanently bruised her physically and mentally. She is absolutely gorgeous but I don’t think she realizes it. When she sings, people listen and I think that in her voice is where she finds her true beauty. Like when she sings her beauty from inside comes out and covers her scars. I love music because she loves music and I love her. She is the true meaning of music coming from within, beauty coming from within. Thank you for opening my eyes to what I hadn’t seen before.

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You guys really got lots of people to open up and I was one of them. And I never open up. That was the first time I opened up to people.

Please come back. You are so great.

Mary-Ann

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I wasn’t bored at all. I know it sounds weird but I was a band geek ever scince [sic] 4th grade. And I am in love with music. I know a lot about music that they were teaching. Music is a life changing experience.

I liked the cello, because it was a graceful sounding instrument. I would like to be an orchestra composer, I think.

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Some of the time I did feel incouraged the way you can get us to participate is by comin to sit with us and trying to make it more funny and not inbarassing. [sic]

I enjoyed the part where we all had to create are own raps and songs and we all where incouraged [sic] each other and some us really came out and helped each other.

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I thought Sarasa was OK. I’m not into that kind of music. I liked when we sang “No Air” and “Take a Bow”. I also liked the girls poems. I did not feel so encouraged because that’s not my type of music. Don’t get me wrong you guys sang nice.

I like touching music that I can relate to like love songs and songs that mean something, and thair are good rap songs because they talk a lot about how my life was when I was younger.

When I was about 2 years old I always use to sit in the car with my mom and sing “Don’t go chasing water falls” I get upset when I hear this song because I don’t live at home I have my own place now but I still love my mom to death. I also love the song “Butterflie kisses” they played it at my dads funeral.

I sing to my fiancée in the shower and when I’m driving. I love going to church and I love that music they play at my church. I love god. I think its very important to go to church.

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